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Welcome to my webpage.  I am a senior economist at the research department of the National Bank of Belgium. I am also an affiliated  associate professor at the department of Finance at Tilburg University.

Since April 2024, I am visiting part-time the ECB, at DGR-FIR as a Lead Economist, primarily in the context of the new ESCB Research Network ChaMP (Challenges for Monetary Policy in a Changing World).  

Twice a year, I organize a workshop of the Empirical Financial Intermediation network. jointly with Mike Marathasian and Klaas Mulier. The aim of the EFI network is to organize small workshops on empirical financial intermediation during which researchers receive ample time to present and receive feedback on their work in a friendly atmosphere. 

In my empirical research, I examine various aspects of financial intermediation, related to :

• bank-firm relationships and shock transmission

• bank lending specialization

• empirical methods to decompose credit supply from credit demand

• the role of collateral in lending

• financial intermediation along firms' supply chain

Recent and Upcoming presentations :

• ASSA meetings in Philadelphia (Jan 3-5, 2026)

  • AFA: Supply chain spillovers of Private equity buyouts* (presentation by Cédric Huylebroek)

  • IBEFA:  Collateral and Credit* (presentation by Tong Zhao)

  • IBEFA: Identifying relationship-specific credit supply and demand

• Seminar at Université de Liège (March 17), Banque de France (March 31), Luiss University (May 26)

• 4th Workshop on Markets and Intermediaries (Bundesbank & Humboldt University) on March 25-26

• Chairing an NBB session at the European Finance Assocation (August 19-22)

It will be a pleasure to be reviewing papers for:

• the European Finance Association 2026 (in Ghent ❤️) - reviewing in process

• the 8th Summer Conference on Financial Intermediation and Corporate Finance 2026  (submission deadline is February 15, 2026)

• IBEFA winter meeting at ASSA 2027 (submission deadline is March 30, 2026)

• 15th FEBS conference at EUI in 2026 - reviewing in process